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Posted June 29, 2012
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brianhutchison: The whole (random) gifting thing makes me feel a little weird inside. I've got nothing against it at all - it's just a personal thing because it is so new to me - it just does not fit into my mind-set that has grown over soooo many years.

Which roughly could be expressed as:

"Work hard, buy what you can afford, when you can afford it."
"Save for a rainy day"
"Give what you can to charity"

It kinda fits into that last one - but not really. Charity is for the needy - and no-one "needs" games. I've gifted a couple of exrtas I had lying around but never actually bought-to-give. Also received a couple of gifts. Those were my toe-in-the-water experiences and they felt odd.

It's a whole new experience I'm trying to come to terms with - like quite a few things and concepts GOG has introduced me to and got me thinking about. It's all good.
As someone who was a Development Director (ie: professional fundraiser) for a number of large charities for years, let me tell you, giving money to charity isn't all it's cracked up to be :)

After 15 years raising money for various charities, I finally got out in disgust as I saw how much of the money people give is completely wasted by the charity themselves and, IMO, in many cases little good actually comes of it.

I never donate to charity anymore, but prefer to give money to people I know who need it. Thus, cutting out the 'middle man' (the charity, that often gets a cut of 40 percent of the money you give).

That's also my philosophy with my new GOG game giveaways on my website:

a) It gives 2 people a month a chance to get a free game they might not otherwise be able to afford (4 people, if you count my 2 GamersGate giveaways :)

and

b) BECAUSE it's on my website, it will hopefully give GOG some free publicity and, as my website gets more popular, that publicity for GOG will increase even more.

I think GOG offers an amazing service. Their games are cheap, I've never had one that didn't work (after some fiddling around :), and the staff that come on here from GOG just seem really, really cool.

So......I'll keep buying a couple of games from GOG every month (maybe more, at some point) to giveaway until they tell me to stop :)

EDIT: Plus, if I was honest, I'd say I've also gotten great enjoyment out of the giveaways myself. I did my first two on GOG and GamersGate last night, and really LOVED that one gamer in Serbia and one in Singapore were getting free games today. Now really, how COOL is that!!!!
Post edited June 29, 2012 by Bloodygoodgames
Posted June 30, 2012
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SimonG:
However, the gamecode is not the license. When the gift is redeemed, GOG grants the license to the redeemer.

However, +1 to you as well. :)
Posted June 30, 2012
I'd just like to give props to everyone who has participated in this topic. I love that there is a real, meaningful, well thought out conversation taking place. And on the internet of all places!

GOG.com Making the World a Better Place
Posted June 30, 2012
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wpegg: Well that's all groovy then. It was more a general question than any suggestion that it shouldn't be done. Good to know there's not a GOG anger around the office, in which case (seeing as it's payday), I might vomit out a few codes some time soon.
If there was any problem for GOG, or the IP holders, for people gifting or buying discounted games in masses, then they would simply prevent that from happening. Like, not discounting the games, or setting limits to gifts, or even disabling gifting altogether.

They have all the power, and since they are not exercising their power, one can assume they are completely fine or even more than fine with it.
Posted June 30, 2012
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JudasIscariot: "Gentlemen, you can't fight here! This is the War Room!" :D
Now I want to rewatch dr. Strangelove again and don't quite have the time needed. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Posted June 30, 2012
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SimonG:
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adambiser: However, the gamecode is not the license. When the gift is redeemed, GOG grants the license to the redeemer.

However, +1 to you as well. :)
I've thought of that too, and it could work. But I honestly don't remember how the redeeming process worked. Guess the next game I buy will be a gift to me. As with everything in law, you can argue in any direction.

You gotta love when technology is advancing faster than the legal guidelines...
Posted June 30, 2012
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JudasIscariot: "Gentlemen, you can't fight here! This is the War Room!" :D
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Fenixp: Now I want to rewatch dr. Strangelove again and don't quite have the time needed. Thank you. Thank you very much.
I guess I'll just have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company for that :D
Posted June 30, 2012
I just want to point out something that I think is important for GOG. Not sure whether anyone above said something about that already, but in any case:

Gifters make people stick to GOG. Just that simple. When I first came to GOG and saw the prices I understood that there simply is no way I can afford to buy games at the price level they are asking for. I understand the point of "fair for all, no region pricing", but I also know very well there IS a good reason for Steam regional prices in Russia. In other words, I still can afford sometimes to buy something that is on sale on Steam with our regional prices (or in an indie bundle), but not on GOG. That is just how it is.

Now, I do not think I would have visited GOG all that frequently in this situation would I? Kind of makes no sense to go and torture yourself in a shop where you can afford nothing.

However, I did try looking (lurking or whatever) around the forums and accidentally stumbled upon a giveaway from Dischord (Witcher 2 at that time). He was really kind and gifted me a couple of games, which made me stick with the web-site and the community. Also his actions and gifts from other people like wpegg made me want to give something back to the community. So that is what I tried to do by creating a couple of threads and just being around in general (until recently when I had some ISP problems).

So all in all, if it was not for the gifters and their gifts, I would not be here typing. Yes, thanks to GOGers I have a backlog now as well and I am trying to give others more chances to get something instead. But I am quite sure it is worth it to gift to the newcomers as it might be a good "investment" for the community as a whole.
Posted June 30, 2012
Dont forget that GOG gifted Fallout 1 to people recently :)
Posted June 30, 2012
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gameon: Dont forget that GOG gifted Fallout 1 to people recently :)
I missed that gifting :D
Posted June 30, 2012
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gameon: Dont forget that GOG gifted Fallout 1 to people recently :)
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te_lanus: I missed that gifting :D
Apparently they've given out a few games over the years. And also we have the ultima worlds games that were very recent, free.
Posted June 30, 2012
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ZPavelZ: I just want to point out something that I think is important for GOG. Not sure whether anyone above said something about that already, but in any case:

Gifters make people stick to GOG. Just that simple. When I first came to GOG and saw the prices I understood that there simply is no way I can afford to buy games at the price level they are asking for. I understand the point of "fair for all, no region pricing", but I also know very well there IS a good reason for Steam regional prices in Russia. In other words, I still can afford sometimes to buy something that is on sale on Steam with our regional prices (or in an indie bundle), but not on GOG. That is just how it is.

Now, I do not think I would have visited GOG all that frequently in this situation would I? Kind of makes no sense to go and torture yourself in a shop where you can afford nothing.

However, I did try looking (lurking or whatever) around the forums and accidentally stumbled upon a giveaway from Dischord (Witcher 2 at that time). He was really kind and gifted me a couple of games, which made me stick with the web-site and the community. Also his actions and gifts from other people like wpegg made me want to give something back to the community. So that is what I tried to do by creating a couple of threads and just being around in general (until recently when I had some ISP problems).

So all in all, if it was not for the gifters and their gifts, I would not be here typing. Yes, thanks to GOGers I have a backlog now as well and I am trying to give others more chances to get something instead. But I am quite sure it is worth it to gift to the newcomers as it might be a good "investment" for the community as a whole.
Very nice post and makes a lot of sense.

Plus 1 to you for that :)
Posted June 30, 2012
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ZPavelZ: I just want to point out something that I think is important for GOG. Not sure whether anyone above said something about that already, but in any case:

Gifters make people stick to GOG. Just that simple. When I first came to GOG and saw the prices I understood that there simply is no way I can afford to buy games at the price level they are asking for. I understand the point of "fair for all, no region pricing", but I also know very well there IS a good reason for Steam regional prices in Russia. In other words, I still can afford sometimes to buy something that is on sale on Steam with our regional prices (or in an indie bundle), but not on GOG. That is just how it is.

Now, I do not think I would have visited GOG all that frequently in this situation would I? Kind of makes no sense to go and torture yourself in a shop where you can afford nothing.

However, I did try looking (lurking or whatever) around the forums and accidentally stumbled upon a giveaway from Dischord (Witcher 2 at that time). He was really kind and gifted me a couple of games, which made me stick with the web-site and the community. Also his actions and gifts from other people like wpegg made me want to give something back to the community. So that is what I tried to do by creating a couple of threads and just being around in general (until recently when I had some ISP problems).

So all in all, if it was not for the gifters and their gifts, I would not be here typing. Yes, thanks to GOGers I have a backlog now as well and I am trying to give others more chances to get something instead. But I am quite sure it is worth it to gift to the newcomers as it might be a good "investment" for the community as a whole.
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